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Article: Camden Yards isn't cure for O's woes.(Sports)
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- The Boston Herald
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- July 20, 2000
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BALTIMORE - The most famous new ballpark of them all isn't all that new anymore.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is 9 years old. It's the prototype for all major league stadiums built since then. If there were no Camden Yards, there would be no talk of a new Fenway Park. Without this place and what has happened here, John Harrington would be straining with all his might to keep the Sox at the old Fenway for another century.
Since Camden Yards is nearly a decade old, it has a track record. It's a record Massachusetts citizens should examine with care.
We're being asked to loan/give the Red Sox a good deal of money in return for receiving the material ...